Beijing: China on November 14 welcomed Iraq's unconditional acceptance of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution on disarmament and urged it to fully implement it, so that a political solution could be found to the vexed issue.

"It is a correct and positive decision and we welcome it," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan told reporters in Beijing when sought China's reaction to Iraq's acceptance of the UNSC Resolution 1441 calling for the complete disarmament of Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction.

"It is our sincere hope that Iraq will implement the UNSC resolution in earnest and in full," he said while hoping that the UN weapons inspectors would return to Iraq as soon as possible so that the Iraq issue could be solved politically within the UN framework.

China, one of the permanent members of the UNSC had supported the amended UN Resolution.

Reports from New York said that Iraq has accepted the UNSC Resolution 1441 despite its "bad contents".

The UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has faxed his notification to Iraq on November 8, half an hour after the UNSC unanimously adopted the US-proposed resolution seeking tougher inspection regime in the country.

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